New Tech Napa Grad Invents Motorized Surfboard

Talk about a whiz kid:

graduate Jason Woods used to like whizzing around on Lake Berryessa in a speedboat.

Now Woods can skim across the surface in the motorized bodyboard for which he recently won a 2011 Inventors Award from Popular Science magazine.

According to the magazine’s website, Woods’s invention – called the Kymera – weighs just 35 pounds and can scoot along the water at up to 15 miles an hour.

A second model now in development will reach 25 mph, Woods told the magazine.

Hope that comes with some kind of flag so we can see you coming, Jason – because you are definitely on the move.